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Blog:On the Road with DCIM – Affirmation & Embellishment of Our Underlying Thesis

I was part of a Forrester Team that recently completed a multi-country rollout tour with Emerson Network Power as they formally released their Trellis DCIM product, a comprehensive DCIM...

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Report:The x86 Server Grows Up And Out

New Modular Servers, Converged Fabrics, And Virtualization Will Reshape Your x86 Infrastructure

From their origins as "PCs with the display cut off," x86 servers have undergone a steady evolution in capabilities and performance, driven by a combination of semiconductor technology and system...

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Blog:ARM Arrives – Calxeda Shows Real Hardware Running Linux

I said last year that this would happen sometime in the first half of this year, but for some reason my colleagues and clients have kept asking me exactly when we would see a real ARM server running...

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Blog:ScaleMP – Interesting Twist On Systems Scalability And Virtualization

I just spent some time talking to ScaleMP, an interesting niche player that provides a server virtualization solution. What is interesting about ScaleMP is that rather than splitting a single...

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Blog:Tectonic Shift In The ARM Ecosystem — AMD Announces ARM Intentions

Earlier this week, in conjunction with ARM Holdings plc’s announcement of the upcoming Cortex A53 and A57, full 64-bit CPU implementations based on the ARM V8 specification, AMD also announced...

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Blog:Cisco Tweaks UCS - New Interfaces, Management Software Expand Capabilities

Not to be left out of the announcement fever that has gripped vendors recently, Cisco today announced several updates to their UCS product line aimed at easing potential system bottlenecks by...

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Client Inquiry:What Role Will The Mainframe Play In A Future Private Cloud Implementation?

As companies move to public and private cloud environments and migrate off legacy COBOL solutions to more modern (e.g., SAP) solutions, what role are the mainframes filling in such a future state?

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Client Inquiry:Is There Any Useful Life Left In Windows 2000?

Is there any useful life left in Windows 2000?

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Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2013

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2013. As...

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Report:Updated Q2 2011: Are Converged Infrastructures Good For IT?

I&O Teams Should Use Converged Infrastructure To Accelerate IaaS And Deploy Complete Application Solutions

IT pros have most of the basic ingredients to cook up their own cloud-like infrastructure or support complex applications — but there's no recipe, and many ingredients just don't combine well....

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Blog:IBM Acquires BNT – Nuclear War In The Converged Infrastructure World?

There has been a lot of press about IBM’s acquisition of BNT (Blade Network Technologies) focusing on the economics and market share of BNT as a competitor to Cisco and HP’s ProCurve/3Com...

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Blog:Dell World – New Image. New Company?

I just spent several days at Dell World, and came away with the impression of a company that is really trying to change its image. Old Dell was boxes, discounts and low cost supply chain. New Dell is...

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Blog:Intel Rewards Itanium Loyalists With Performance And RAS Features In Poulson

Intel Raises the Curtain on Poulson At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel disclosed additional details about the upcoming Poulson Itanium CPU due for shipment early next year. For Itanium...

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Blog:SHARE – Rooted In The Past, Looking To The Future

I spoke today at SHARE’s biannual conference, giving a talk on emerging data center architectures, x86 servers, and internal clouds. SHARE is an organization which describes itself as...

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Client Inquiry:Application-Specific Bundles Need To Provide Certain Characteristics To Attract Buyers

Do you consider the combination of SAP HANA with an IBM or HP box an application-specific bundle too? When customers consider buying these application-specific bundles, what are the primary decision...

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Blog:HP And Oracle Customers React – Not Happy, But Coping

Since Oracle dropped their bombshell on HP and Itanium, I have fielded multiple emails and about a dozen inquiries from HP and Oracle customers wanting to discuss their options and plans. So far,...

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Blog:Cisco Makes The Charts – Now No. 3 In Blades

When Cisco began shipping UCS slightly over two years ago, competitor reaction ranged the gamut from concerned to gleefully dismissive of their chances at success in the server market. The reasons...

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Blog:Intel Shows the Way Forward, Demos 22 nm Parts with Breakthrough Semiconductor Design

What Intel said and showed Intel has been publishing research for about a decade on what they call “3D Trigate” transistors, which held out the hope for both improved performance as well...

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Report:How Many Servers Can Dance On The Head Of An Administrator?

Demystifying Support Ratios For Core Infrastructure

How many servers can a single administrator manage? How many terabytes of storage can one admin handle? Answers to these support ratio questions are frequently sought by Forrester's infrastructure...

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Blog:Hyper-V Matures As An Enterprise Platform

A project I’m working on for an approximately half-billion dollar company in the health care industry has forced me to revisit Hyper-V versus VMware after a long period of inattention on my...

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Tool:The SAP Benchmark Reveals Similar Performance Across Several Server Vendors

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Blog:Oracle Open World Part 2 – Flash Mobs And The Quest For Performance

Well actually I meant mobs of flash, but I couldn’t resist the word play. Although, come to think of it, flash mobs might be the right way to describe the density of flash memory system vendors...

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Blog:AMD Releases Interlagos And Valencia – Bulldozers In The Cloud

This week AMD finally released their AMD 6200 and 4200 series CPUs. These are the long-awaited server-oriented Interlagos and Valencia CPUs, based on their new “Bulldozer” core, offering...

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Client Inquiry:Suppliers vs. Buyers Or Who Has The Market Power In The Server Market?

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Blog:Is IBM Selling Its Server Business To Lenovo?

  The industry is abuzz with speculation that IBM will sell its x86 server business to Lenovo. As usual, neither party is talking publicly, but at this point I’d give it a better than even...